Aleria

Aleria was an Etruscan city-state on the island of Corsica. Aleria was founded by Ionian Greeks in 566 BC, and, after the city of Phocaea in Ionia was besieged by the Persians in 546 BC, half of their refugees fled to Aleria. In 540 BC, the Phocaeans of Aleria defeated an Etruscan-Carthaginian fleet which was sent to conquer Corsica from the Greeks, but the Etruscans soon took control of the island. The Phocaeans abandoned Aleria and fled to Rhegion, and Aleria became an Etruscan city. In 259 BC, the Romans conquered Aleria during the First Punic War, and the Etruscans were assimilated as Romans.